Myanmar authorities confiscated over 550 tons of illegal timbers across Myanmar in a week, according to a release from the Forest Department under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation, Xinhua reported.

From Aug. 17 to 23, the authorities seized over 131 tons of illegal teak, over 175 tons of hardwood and 244.3 tons of other types of timbers across the country, the release said.

According to the department's latest figures, a total of over 12,370 tons of illegal timber including over 3,098.2 tons of teak, over 2,602.7 tons of hardwood and over 6,669 tons of other types of timbers were seized across the country in first four months of the present fiscal year 2019-2020 which started in October.